Since the first modern humans left their birthplace in Eastern Africa and slowly spread to populate every inhabitable place on the planet, Homo sapiens has been a migratory animal. Over thousands of years, these travellers unknowingly carried excess baggage on their journeys: countless microbes in and on their bodies, which evolved along with their host. By applying the tools of modern genomics...

What is the best advice you have been given? If you want something, go and get it! At a certain point in your career, your most desired place to continue your studies (PhD, postdoc, group leader) might be overbooked, or the lab chief might tell you that he can not have you in his group for some obscure reason. If you really know where you want to go, visit the place, and insist until a door ope...

A logic programming language with potential software engineering benefit is described. The language is intended as a specification language where the user specifies software functionality while ignoring efficiency. The goals of the language are: (1) a pure specification language – “what, not how”, (2) small size, and (3) a metalanguage – able to imitate and thus subsume other languages. The lan...

For tiny crystals, their diffraction intensities at and between the Bragg peaks become measurable due to the limited number of the unit cells, which can in principle be used to directly phase the crystal structures.

418 August 2014 Anesthesiology, V 121 • No 2 418 August 2014 IIn the Neuro/Trauma ICU, the patients were arranged like artwork. Statuesque figures projected their sculptured, angular images in a gallery of haloed subjects suspended in animation. Some were conscious, and some were elsewhere. On this particular dreary day in December, I noticed a group of family members—a mother and two daughters...

code reuse attacks such as return oriented programming and jump oriented programming become the most popular exploitation methods among attackers. a large number of practical and non-practical defenses have been proposed that differ in their overhead, the source code requirement, detection rate and implementation dependencies. however, a usual aspect among them is to consider the common behavio...